Rescue her(32)

CHAPTER THIRTY TWO

"WHAT!!! T…that's crazy. We can't just go after villains! Not S ranked villains at least!" sem panicked as the very thought of going up against people like that terrified him, but would it be right to call them as people? Demons were more like it. Off course he was scared, they were all scared. Who wouldn't be!?

Noah turned annoyed at the cowardice of this one. Taking a step closer to him and closing the distance, he freed his hand on his face in a hard backhanded slap, making sem to recoil out of shock and calm down.

"have you all forgotten why we enrolled in this school in the first place??" he questioned them and they looked at him warily for fear that they might get smacked by this class captain of theirs if they provided an unsuitable response to him.

"if we run from people like that who are we to call our self as heroes? If anything I think we ought to forfeit that dream…" there it was…that air of pride and arrogance he always exuded when he spoke was being radiated now. But it wasn't enough to convince them, although he had a point, but still…it didn't take away the fact that they were still students! Students who haven't even written their midterms!

"but Noah be reasonable…even if we did go after them, how are we meant to have access to such database on their whereabouts and other rather important information…" Millie spoke up, still keeping her distance from him.

"I'm sure we will find a way…" he puffed his chest in confidence.

"you sound just like xerxes!" Philip chuckled, earning him a spiteful glare from Noah. Noah hated being compared to xerxes more than any anything.

If anything, he didn't want xerxes to have the satisfaction of being the one to rescue Leah, that would make him look weak in her eyes and he didn't want that!

"hang on a sec…what is this 'we' business, none of us agreed to this…" Sem who had recovered from the slap frowned.

"so you mean to tell me that you don't care what happens to her…to Charlie?" Noah looked down on him with scrutinizing eyes and he shook his head to say no.

"that's not what I meant Noah, all I'm trying to say is why don't we let the pros handle it..i mean have any of you ever gone up against an actual super villain?" Sem reasoned logically and he had a point…none of them have any actual experience when it comes to things like that and that was what scared him the most… it would be four or maybe five…xerxes included, amateur heroes against a battle font of villains with far better experience than them.

Whatever the case may be…Noah was determined to go after them.

"that shouldn't stop us, should it…have you all forgotten everything Ivy or rather Leah has done for us…individually. Millie, when you were being picked on by those girls because of the way you speak, who took care of them?" He placed a gentle hand on her shoulder as he looked her in the eyes. Millie bit her bottom lip as she remembered it.

"…even when I knew she was the one who scared them off, she still denied it and whenever I would lock myself up in my room she would always send me snacks through my window…even if she never said anything I could tell she always looked out for me…" there was a soft smile on her face as she said that. "…w…we have to rescue her!!"

"HUH!? MILLIE!" Sem exclaimed as he turned to look at her.

"what about you Philip…whenever you got in trouble with Seagraves for freezing the water reserves so you could ice skate, who bailed you out?"

"hah…she somehow convinced him that there were strange substances in the tank and said we had to freeze it just to be sure, man, she was crazy than I was…" Philip chuckled lightly as he ran his fingers through his blue hair. "…damn it, now even if I didn't want to go, I just have too…"

"are you kidding me!! " Sem was having an anxiety attack right now. He felt betrayed by these two. One minute they were on his side and the next they were jumping down the rabbit hole with Noah!!

"sem…" Noah called his name sweetly like the devil and he tussled his hair frustrated before sighing.

"fine…suppose I do say yes, where do we start from. We have no leads, no clue, no nothing!"

"as much as I hate to say this, but we need to find xerxes, he might know something…" Noah suggested and the two nodded, well, Sem was still skeptical off course, but Leah and he had a certain vibe and he would forever be cursed by his own conscience if anything happened to her or Charlie.

"he took off without trace…how exactly do we find him?" sem groaned and everyone thought hard.

As if a light bulb had suddenly appeared above her head, Millie beamed.

"if we can't get help from the pros or xerxes…I know one more person we can go too…"

"who?"

"Leah's mother…she wasn't here so I'm assuming the news hasn't reached her yet…"

"Millie, you genius…but, how do we find her. There's the possibility that for safety reasons, false information would most likely be submitted in her files…" Remarked noah with a thoughtful look on his face.

It was like a roller coaster of disappointments right now. Or so they thought.

"actually…I might have the actual address.." millie dropped the information, sparking joy once more.

"you truly are an angel millie.." Noah smiled kindly at her as he gave her a tight hug. The girl who had never been praised nor received attention from the captain like this before froze as her entire face flushed, making her stammer.

"we should get going…right now…" Noah suggested as he let go of her.

"now? " sem asked confused. As egre as they were to find and rescue Leah, they didn't have a solid plan. What if they didn't find her mother?

"I know what you're thinking sem, but we have limited options available to us, so we just need to work with what is at our disposal. Besides what better time to escape than now when the heroes are most likely with the principal"

"he's right…the more time we waste here, the most likely the security around the school will become tighter and since its just the four of us, escape shouldn't be a problem…" Philip pondered on their options. After all, he already agreed to this half baked rescue operation, but then again…he was the king of half baked experiments which only railed up his appetite for the mission.

"fine…but if anything goes wrong…"

"nothing will go wrong, name a time where I led any of you into trouble, or don't you have faith in your captain, sem?"

"ugh…spare me the captain speech…let's just go already " he reluctantly moved his feet as he began walking away, Millie and Philip joined him, while Noah had a small smile on his face.

Truth be told, he wasn't entirely confident about how they intend to get Leah and Charlie back.